With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2002-05-20 - 11:15 a.m.
I've put up updating long enough, I guess it's time to update. I ran out of here yesterday to go to Montclair to meet the Engles at the Montclair Festival and hear Deni Bonet. If found the park without too much trouble and was able to park a reasonable distance away. The next challenge was finding the Engles. I was almost finished walking around all the booths and was becoming convinced that they were walking around in the same direction I was when I finally found them.
There were about two hours to Deni was supposed to go on so we walked around the festival and ate, I introduced the Engles to the glories of kettle corn, Kelsey would occasionally join us and ask for money from either Tim or Robin or both.
When it got near 2 I was getting worried that I hadn't seen Deni and that there was another violinist getting ready to go onstage. I asked the MC when Deni was going on and she said that she wasn't: That because of the change in date she had to cancel. Communication was not the strong point of this weekend. There wasn't a list of the musicians performing anywhere and Deni never emailed to say that she would not be playing on the rain date.
I was glad I went anyway so I could see the Tim, Robin, and Kelsey but it would have been nice to know that Deni wasn't going to be there. I'm going to have to miss her next show too because it's the same day as the Kennedys' release party for their new CD. To make it worse Teddy Thompson will be appearing with her.
On the way home I had to drive through Manhattan so I went to the Chocolate Bar again. I got the chocolate Shaker. It was delicious be outrageously overpriced. It was basically an 8-ounce glass filled with ice with a bit of chocolate drink in it. There were literally only two sips of drink in it and it cost $3.25. I'm not getting that again.
OK now for the rest of my recommended movies for the week.
Saturday, May 25:
8:00 PM UPN - Time Bandits: A unique film of a young boys adventures in time. Anyone familiar with his work will recognize that it was directed by Terry Gilliam. It was co-written by fellow Python Michael Palin and features John Cleese. George Harrison was a co-producer and contributed to the score. The film will fill you with sense of wonder, it does everything a fantasy is supposed to do. My only criticism is the downbeat ending, which was at odds with the rest of the film. The kid should have ended up with Agamemnon played with Sean Connery.8:00 PM TCM - Hannah and Her Sisters: Probably Woody Allen's second greatest film after Annie Hall It isn't as funny but it is still brilliant filmmaking. Not being as funny as Annie Hall isn't a touch criticism anyway, it's still funnier that 99% of most comedies. A great slice of New York life.
10:00 PM TCM - Crimes and Misdemeanors: Woody Allen's most disturbing film. It tells the story of a man brought by circumstances to murder his mistress and his lack of remorse. Despite the dark subject matter it still manages to be funny with a brilliant performance by Martin Landau as the murderer.
Midnight (really Sunday) AMC - Dracula: The granddaddy of all horror films, the one the only the original. The movie is a mood piece is secondary. The acting, the sets, and the music create an otherworldly feel. The lines have become clichés but in the original they are brilliant. "The children of the night; what music they make." "I never drink….wine." Bela Lugosi is Dracula.
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